Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
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Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
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Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
Many thanks to the brilliant reviewers, my research interlocutors in the Balkans, the P&P editorial team, and everyone who helped me shape this article, many years in the making. I am grateful to @ucsblibrary.bsky.social for making this article immediately accessible to all. (4)
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
(c) the governments in Sofia, Belgrade, and Bucharest often adapted Ottoman immigration policies to transfer the land to their co-ethnic immigrants. The new Balkan states were shaped not only by the presence of the remaining Muslims but also by the absence of Muslims who had been expelled. (3)
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I researched the post-1878 legislation in the three countries to discern that: (a) Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania built their land policies upon the Ottoman land regime; (b) the hotly contested "abandoned land" of Muslim refugees became a state tool for ethno-religious homogenization; and ... (2)
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Many congratulations, @ezrawinton.bsky.social!
August 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
July 14: Munich. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Institute for the Near and Middle East.

Many thanks to Mehmet Hacısalihoğlu for inviting me and hosting the talk.

www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/wasistlosami...
Oberseminar Vortrag: Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024) Book presentation - Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten - LMU Münch...
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June 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
June 26: Hamburg. University of Hamburg. Department of History and Culture of the Middle East.

Many thanks to the incredible Alexander Balistreri.

www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/aktuel...
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
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June 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
June 23: Marburg. Philipps University of Marburg. Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

I am very grateful to Albrecht Fuess and Evgeniya Prusskaya.

www.uni-marburg.de/de/cnms/isla...
Empire of Refugees : North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
Join us for a guest lecture by Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on the migration of North Caucasian Muslims and the development of a refugee regime in the late Ottoman Empire. Drawing from his new book Em...
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June 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
June 18: Berlin. Forum Transregionale Studien, Europe in the Middle East, the Middle East in Europe Colloquium.

Many thanks to Georges Khalil for the invitation.

www.eume-berlin.de/en/events/ca...
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (UC, Santa Barbara / EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2025-26), Chair: Toygun Altıntaş (FU Berlin / EUME Fellow 2020-25)
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June 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM